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Author Hooper, Elise, author.

Title Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team / Elise Hooper.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Hooper    New Books Pittsburg 2ndFL  DUE 04-30-24
Edition First edition.
Description 486, 13 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Note Includes P.S.: insights, interviews & more... (13 pages).
Summary This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve.
Subject Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) -- Fiction.|
Women Olympic athletes -- Fiction.
African American women Olympic athletes -- Fiction.
Sports stories.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
ISBN 9780062937995 (paperback)
0062937995 (paperback)

 
    
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